Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish i [...]

UK Visa Portal website leaks thousands of user passport data and photos online

Passports, verification selfies and other supporting documents were stored in an unsecured cloud storage repository. [...]

A Google engineer used internal search data to bet $2.7m on Polymarket. The DOJ has charged him.

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecut [...]

Four key questions insurers must answer to embrace AI effectively

Insurers need to run, not walk, to AI in the Cloud, but should ask these four questions first. [...]

Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. [...]

Salesforce posted a record quarter and beat earnings estimates — but soft guidance tempered the rally

The cloud software company reported $11.1 billion in first-quarter revenue, but its full-year outlook landed just below Wall Street expectations [...]

Dell just won a big Pentagon contract. Its CEO also pledged billions to Trump Accounts

The five-year deal will streamline Microsoft 365 and cloud licensing across the Defense Department, intelligence community, and Coast Guard [...]

SQL query logs hold the context AI agents need to stop hallucinating joins

When Miro’s data team pointed AI agents directly at its Snowflake environment, the agents got the wrong answer more than 65% of the time. The problem wasn’t the model — it was context. With more [...]

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new featur [...]